ISic000157: Funerary epitaph for Coponia
- ID
- ISic000157
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text on basis of autopsy
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Large rectangular plaque in brown/grey marble. Lower left corner missing, obscuring the beginning of lines 2-3. Traces of likely modern mortar and paint on sides. Stone is polished smooth on front face, but is not uniformly flat on the front surface. Rear is almost perfectly flat and polished.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 23.5 cm, width: 36.5 cm, depth: 3 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Three lines of Latin text, centred on the stone, with the header of line 1 filling the upper half of the stone. Interpuncts only used in final line, and do not follow a consistent pattern (first visible interpunct is shaped like a tight comma, second like a diagonal slash, third like a larger comma, final like a downwards slash).
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 39-40mm
- Line 2: 39-41mm
- Line 3: 39-44mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- First recorded/seen by Ferrua in 1941 in the museum, provenance assumed to be Termini Imerese.
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 68
- Autopsy
- Antoniou, 2023-07-05. In the Depositi of Museo Civico Baldassare Romano, room 1, scaffold 8, shelf 1
- Map
Date
later 2nd century CE (Ferrua on the basis of the letter forms) (AD 150 – AD 200)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
Ferrua suggests that the full restoration of the missing cognomen from lines 2-3 is Amemta, which is of Greek origin, and which is rare, but is more commonly found in the masculine form (Amemptos), deriving from the adjective commonly found in contemporary Greek funerary inscriptions in Sicily. There are two other attestations of members of the gens Coponia from Thermae Himeraeae, see ISic000156 and ISic000158, and another attestation from Messana, see ISic000273. As Bivona (1994) stresses, the gens Coponia is represented by a handful of republican senators and one equestrian procurator of Judaea under Augustus.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 175735
- EDR: 076863
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 10900650
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- « L’année épigraphique: revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine. », L’année épigraphique : revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine., 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/630058599, at 1994.0777
- « L’année épigraphique: revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine. », L’année épigraphique : revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine., 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/630058599, at 1977.0339
- Antonio Ferrua, «Analecta sicula», Epigraphica 3 (1941): 252–70, at 262 no.22
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 78
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 7/24/2025